Article May 24, 1952 Issue

TRUTH IS EVER AVAILABLE AND APPLICABLE

LESTER B. MC COUN

The assumption that divine Truth is freely available in a hereafter, but is mainly unavailable in the present, displays gross ignorance of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God, whom Jesus served. The works of Christ Jesus are repeated in some measure today in Christian Science, and none of these works point to an absent God or an indefinite hereafter. The vague supposition that God, good, is ever present and supreme over all, but that such omnipresent and omnipotent good is not universally available, fades away before spiritual facts demonstrated in Christian Science.

Omnipresence can have no limitation or absence, whether one believes he is here or elsewhere. A hereafter of common human belief does not unite God and man, does not make God, who is infinite, better understood or more available. Belief in temporary material existence does not separate omnipotent God and man in His image, does not cancel immortality and the constant availability of healing Truth and Love. Goodness and immortality are not gained by death, but by seeking, accepting, and expressing the divine presence and power now. Material ignorance is not in the same mental category as spiritual understanding, and these opposites do not coexist. Christ Jesus gave us an undying, not a dying, example of the immediately available and applicable power and presence of God.

It is ignorance of God and man that would have one believe divine power to be available only some of the time. The requirement that none shall look to death for living light, but that all shall seek, accept, and prove by works that divine Truth instantly is available and all that is really applicable, causes one to become a progressively better transparency for the only real power there is, that of God, good.

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